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This is an old revision of PuppiPlan made by CrustyLobster on 2012-06-03 06:08:28.
Breaking news BarryK gets Raspberry hardware
What will Puppi be like?
- Small, fast, easy to use. Just works.
- Familiar, generic, general purpose operating system
- Extremely friendly for Linux and PuppySchoolProgramming programming newbies
What are the proposed Puppi spec?
- Boot and run fast
- Decompress and run from the 256MB of Raspberry Pi ram
- jwm JWM - Joe's Window Manager and/or choice of window managers as appets (pets for ARM)
- ROXfiler Rox File Manager (incidentally Rox was developed first on the ARM processor)
- Puppy mainstream programs
- Recognizable Puppy scripts eg Plogo
- Major programs eg LibreOffice
- Puppi Control Panel
- Puppi Security GROWL Security
- MoManager for non-english Puppi
- Styling options from Saluki
- Puppi Cloud support, Meebo, Gmail, Yahoo, IRC etc as available in SlackoNews Slacko
Spec are likely to change during development
What is the current status?
Have boards: Antiloquax, (RacyPy developer), John Murga (forum owner, puplet developer, creator of Murga Lua programming language), Lobster, Rhadon, MrGreen
Boards on order: BarryK expected shortly (creator of Puppy Linux), Raffy, Sickgut
What is the BIG plan?
Puppi is part of a long term PARM PARM strategy to make Puppy available on next generation ARM tablets and future superphones and other devices. Puppy is already moving towards 64bit and CPU independence.
Once Puppy is solidly on Raspberry Pi, we will add drivers for PARM other PARM devices
Eventually allowing for touch screens, voice control, making use of Android or other plug in apps.
First however we have to work to a common goal and working for well documented, specific hardware - cheap enough for everyone to splash out. This has evolved into the Raspberry Pi commitment.
In 2013 as the market matures, we will work towards a common ready made Android/Smartphone tablet hardware device with worldwide availability. At that time we can ask people to make another hardware commitment.
What is the Raspberry Pi plan?
Use the cheapest, most widely available, well documented motherboard
built to high engineering standards.
We are right at the beginning of software development
Prepare to learn EVERYTHING
What Puppy centric news and support is available?
